Mount foe photographs and the like



May 24, 1927. 1,629,670

G. A. MALME MOUNT FOR PHQTOGRAPHS AND THE LIKE Filed Jan. 12, 1926 Patented May 24, 1927.

.GUSTAVE A. MALME, 01* RACINE,

WISCONSIN, ASSIGINOE TO ED\VARD N. LODGE, OE COLUMBUS, OHIO.

.MOUN'J. FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AND THE LIKE.

Application filed January This invention appertains to certain new and useful improvements in mounts for pictures.

The object of my invention is to provide a mount for pictures, such as pl'iotogra lis. cards, and the like, the mount being of such construction that the picture may be readily associated with the mount and will be held thereby in place without liability of bending the picture in associating the same with the mount.

A. further object of my invention is to provide a mount for cards prints, photographs and the like, the face adjacent to its top being provided with an inverted pocket for the reception of the upper per tion and adjacent side edges of a card. picture or photograph which is held in place when the lower corners of such object are inserted in the conventional corner retain ing slits.

A further object of the invention is to provide a mount for photographs. the front thereof being provided with an inverted pocket of such depth as to receive a portion of a card which is retained in said pocket by inserting the lower corners through slits.

lViththe above objects in view, my invention consists in a mount of the character set forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings which illustrate the preferred embodiment of my invention,

Figure l is a plan view of a mount extended, a portion of the pocket and corners of the photograph held being broken away;

Figure 2 is a detailed sectional view on the line 22 of Fig. l;

Figure 3 is a detailed sectional view on the broken line 33;

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing the parts of the mount arranged to provide an easel;

Figure 5 is a perspective view showing the flaps folded to provide an envelope or cover;

Figure 6 is a detailed sectional view of a modification wherein the pocket is fori'ned of a separate piece of material;

Figure 7 is a fragmentary sectional view taken on a part of line 33 of Fig. 1, the view showing a modification of construction.

Referring to the drawings, A indicates a sheet of cardboard of appropriate length and width which has flaps a and b. The

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flap (I. is rectangular and is substantially of the same dimensions as the intermediate portion 0 of the mount, and the [lap a. has therethrough a curved or semi-circular incisioncl and near its end an incision of such shape as to provide a tongue (6 having a straight transverse portion and curved sides. The tie. p I) has converging edges which meet and terminate in a somewhat rounded end portion.

The longitudinal strip A which is, as heretofore stated. made of cardboard or other suitable material, and is provided with transverse scores or folds which may be de prcssions or rounded portions which are located as indicated by broken lines o and e, and in practice, these folds orbends will be limited slightly b vond a reinforced and ornai filli'lllpj layer B which is shght ly less in len th and. width than the intermediate or center portion of the strip A, to which it attached by lieing glued thereon. The piece B may have its edges scalloped, pinked. beveled or otherwise ()llltllltlQnted and it may he of a color which contrasts with the strip iX to which it is glued.

Q refers to a holding frame preferably of cardboard and of a color (littering from the colors of the other parts. said part Shaving a depressed central portion which is bound ed by sides 7, f and upper and lower edges, said part also having within the depressed portion diagonal corner slits and semi-circular cutaway portions which are of the usual construction, and the lower portion of this frame has a depending part, while its upper portion is provided with an inverted pocket. The part G is preferably made of a single piece of material and what is referred toas the sight opening is a depressed portion which receives the photograph or other matter to be displayed. This portion C is glued by dabs of paste or adhesive material y to the portion B when the same is used, and when not used, it is glued directly to the center portion of the strip A. When the upper edge of the part G is folded over, it forms an inverted pocket for the reception of the upper portion of a card, photograph or the like, which will be held in the mount when its upper edge is inserted in the pocket, after which the lower corners are inserted in the slits at the opposite end of the sight opening.

\Vhen the part C is made of an integral piece, its side edges are glued to the upper margin or the parts f, f, and the depth of the pocket is such as to admit the photograph being slid into the same so that its lower corners will be beyond the slits. after which the lower corners of the photograph are passed through the slits and lowere 1 which will securely hold the same in place.

The Jocket C ma be )rovided b usin :l a

a separate transverse strip C, as shown by Fig. (3 in which case, instead ot' a i'told-over tlap at the top, a separate piece is glued in place, the glue or paste being applied to the inner iaces adjacent to the upper edges and to the sides, thus providing an invert d pocket which is integral with the mat.

hen in use, the flaps a and 7) are Folded rearward and the end of flap 6 is inserted through the slit beyond the tongue (1 and when so positioned an easel is formed and the tongue d will firmly clamp the inst Ad end and hold the parts in position to provide a self-supporting mount. By tolding the flaps in an opposite direction and inserting the end of the flap through the slit (Z, an envelope will be formed, which will fully protect and overlie the picture carried by the mount.

I claim:

1. A mount for the purpose set forth. provided at its upper end with an inverted pocket and near its lower portion with slits, the pocket being of a depth which will permit of an object being passed into said pocket. for a distance equal to the distance required to bring the corners therco't to position for insertion in the lower retaining slits.

2- A mount for photographs and the like comprising a cover member having end flaps which provide either an envelope or an easeh. a mat attached to the cover, said mat eeann) having at its upper end portion a folded over and connected flap which provides an inverted pocket having closed ends, said niat I also having at its lower end slits for the retention of the lower corners of an object when the upper end thereot is located in the inverted pocket.

3-. A mount for photographs and the like, having at its upper portion an inverted pocket and at its lower portion diagonal slits to receive the corners of a picture, the depth oi the pocket exceeding the distance of the upper terminal ot the slits from their lower terminal portions.

:t-. it mount tor photographs and the like, comprising a mat having a depressed central portion and an inverted pocket at its upper portion, a sheet of contrasting color ct slightl larger area than the mat, a cover to which the sheet and mat are attached, said cover having transverse scores which pro *ide means for folding the cover in position to provide either an envelope or an easel.

A. mount for pictures or photographs having at its upper end an inverted pocket with. an arched central portion the part torming the pocket having a depth which is greater than the vertical length of slits through the mountfor the reception of the lower corners of a picture which is held in place on the mount by the pocket and the slits.

6'. A mounttor the purpose set forth having at its upper end an inverted pocket, the sides and upper edge of the pocltet being attached to and overlying the face of the mount, the mount also lnWi-ng corner retaining slits at the lower end for receiving the corners of object while the upper end of said object is in the pocket.

GUSTAVE A. MALE-IE. 

